Brownlow Brownlow Thread 2024

[doug85]

I'm just pointing out all awards seemingly are "flawed."

Unless our player wins.

Agree on both

 

[doug85]

How many did Merrett finish on?

18

 

[Mootsy]

Bont shunned.

 

[MattyB3150]

Bont shunned.

AA captain. Wins the mvp. The Brownlow has become a joke.

 

[MiguelM]

All awards are very stats based now which is biased for midfielders. May as well be Supercoach.

Ruckmen, forward or defender has no chance but can be just as valuable.

 

[BomberFan355]

Averaged basically 2 votes a game but couldn’t get his team to score in almost a half of football!

 

[Call Me Cake]

Midfielder's Medal

 

[dank420_]

Is Carlton the team with the most brownlow votes to have no team success?

Don’t worry about researching that. The answer is yes.

 

[raskolnikov]

So Cripps was the best on ground in 15 of 23 games?

Bullshit.

 

[Vindicater]

It needs to be taken out of the hands of the umpires

 

[ant555]

And now you know why I do not care.

 

[Mercurial89]

Well deserved win, had a good year.

 

[Lore]

Kind of inevitable if he stays on the field. Who is going to steal the votes off him?

 

[I Remember Bluey]

Zach at 151 dollar odds!
you got this.

Good god your worse than me, and I love it

 

[Vander18]

Has moved beyond being a midfielders medal….a select few mids are clearly so prominent in the umps minds that the voting is horrendously skewed towards them.

Cripps and Daicos seem to have votes in the bag before they even get off the bus pre-game.

How does Cripps get 45 and Bont 14 or whatever he got….Bont does everything Cripps does and more.

 

[faible]

Has moved beyond being a midfielders medal….a select few mids are clearly so prominent in the umps minds that the voting is horrendously skewed towards them.

Cripps and Daicos seem to have votes in the bag before they even get off the bus pre-game.

How does Cripps get 45 and Bont 14 or whatever he got….Bont does everything Cripps does and more.

Patrick Cripps and Marcus Bontempelli AFL Stats Comparison

Patrick Cripps and Marcus Bontempelli AFL Stats Comparison.

www.footywire.com

 

[BrunoV]

Has moved beyond being a midfielders medal….a select few mids are clearly so prominent in the umps minds that the voting is horrendously skewed towards them.

Cripps and Daicos seem to have votes in the bag before they even get off the bus pre-game.

How does Cripps get 45 and Bont 14 or whatever he got….Bont does everything Cripps does and more.

Well Bont spends more time forward, probably having more of an impact on a game, so that won't help.

 

[Vander18]

Well Bont spends more time forward, probably having more of an impact on a game, so that won't help.

Yes - needs more impactless accumulation if he wants to poll better.

 

[coastalpipeline]

I think the reward needs to be renamed.
The reward has lost its meaning.
Coleman player kicks most goals in a season
Rising Star best young player in the season
Brownlow player who the umps want to make extra cash from by deeming him best player of the comp in a seasosn, but not make it look too obvious

 

[coastalpipeline]

Yes - needs more impactless accumulation if he wants to poll better.

Needs to be subbed

 

[BrunoV]

I think the reward needs to be renamed.
The reward has lost its meaning.
Coleman player kicks most goals in a season
Rising Star best young player in the season
Brownlow player who the umps want to make extra cash from by deeming him best player of the comp in a seasosn, but not make it look too obvious

If this was soccer I would assume that it is corruption at play. Perhaps I am too naïve when it comes to footy.

It seems to me that it would be well within the scope of a senior umpire to tip the scales. You can't create winner out of nothing, that would be too obvious. But being in a position to ensure that Cripps gets 2 or 3 votes a few times when he wasn't that good could easily be the difference.

I don't care enough to look back on it but it would be very interesting to see which combinations of umpires gave Cripps votes. Maybe that needs to be traced back a few years...